Everything I Never Told You

By Celeste Ng

Description

New York Times Bestseller · A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice · Winner of the Alex Award· Winner of the APALA Award for Fiction · NEA Big Read Selection NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR · San Francisco Chronicle · Entertainment Weekly · The Huffington Post · Buzzfeed · Amazon · Grantland · Booklist · St. Louis Post Dispatch · Shelf Awareness · Book Riot · School Library Journal · Bustle · Time Out New York · Mashable · Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Reviews

Everything I never told you

1

By 7714vb

To detailed oriented had to skip read

Couldn’t put it down

5

By guess :)

I read this book in about a week. Such great characters, you feel like you know them.

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5

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Perfection

5

By Dr.Mrs.Afi

Beautiful. Powerful. Wonderfully written.

Great!

5

By Nannie14A&A

Loved the characters, the content, the story. Felt each character’s feelings. I will read every book she puts out. I am a fan!

The are redeeee

5

By EdSnyder

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No surprises here

3

By miab531

The book was a pretty easy, quick read. The ending was largely predictable from the beginning of the book. The story line and the dialogue felt very cliche at times. The author's style of writing was also very descriptive, so much so that it was honestly difficult to get through paragraphs at any given time and the writing felt forced in places. For anyone that likes a story painting a portrait of a family with movies-esque drama, this is your read. But otherwise, I'd look into another.

Read it.

5

By wormish

It's about Tiger moms, and parents wanting the best for their kids, and the bias in society, and the dynamics of a family, in this instance, an Asian-American family. It resonated so much in me because it felt real, a plot that could happen in real life. I hope they make this into a movie.. Looking forward to another great novel from Ms. Ng..

Brilliantly Structured

5

By Literary Fan

This book is brilliantly structured and is a great read on several levels. It is much more than solving the question of how Lydia died. The story of being different, or of wanting to be different, or wanting to fit in, is a universal story that transends time, place, generations, and is played out all too tragically in schools, streets, and neighborhoods today. A close read of Ng’s detail and emotionally packed book is in order. As much as it is a page-turner, it is a great lesson, too.

Moving read!

5

By bradidaily

A quick but beautiful and moving story of the dynamics of a family. Loved it!